I think it’s because it forces me to articulate things, which often leads me to conclude that I don’t know as much as I thought I knew. You can also look at search volume, but “Traffic potential” tends to be more accurate. For example, let’s say Google already has your blog homepage in its index. If you add an internal link to a new blog post from there, Google can “follow” that link to find the post….

It may also be useful to check your content against other pages ranking for your chosen keyword. For example, if competitor content has a compelling and friendly tone, you can mirror this to meet the expectations of your audience. It’s useful to start page by page when incorporating SEO into your site. Pick a webpage, then decide what you want to communicate, the target audience, and what you want someone to do after viewing the…

By default, all pages are assumed to have the “follow” attribute. Once you’ve ensured your site has been crawled, the next order of business is to make sure it can be indexed. That’s right — just because your site can be discovered and crawled by a search engine doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be stored in their index. In the previous section on crawling, we discussed how search engines discover your web pages. After…